Global Cities (Names and Dates) (CLARKE) Flashcards
Two developments in global economy
Sassen, 1991
- Decentralisation of manufacturing industry
- Centralisation of management, control and planning activity
What are activity spaces?
Massey, 1995
The spatial network of links and activities, connections and locations, within which individuals operate.
Arrival of high/low skilled migrants can invite reactionary sense of place amongst existing residents
Massey, 1994
Place as bounded static and internally coherent or pure.
Place as belong to locals and under threat from global elites, low-skilled economic migrants, refugees.
London and similar cities
Sassen, 1991
Become command points of world economy
Become socially polarised
Become spatially polarised
Transnational Urbanism
Smith, 2001
Migrants produce urban spaces (e.g Korea town, LA)
LA not just shoeshine economy
Cities are crossroads/meeting grounds for multiple networks
- Decentralisation of manufacturing industry
- Centralisation of management, control and planning activity
Two developments in global economy
Sassen, 1991
The spatial network of links and activities, connections and locations, within which individuals operate.
What are activity spaces?
Massey, 1995
Place as bounded static and internally coherent or pure.
Place as belong to locals and under threat from global elites, low-skilled economic migrants, refugees.
Arrival of high/low skilled migrants can invite reactionary sense of place amongst existing residents
Massey, 1994
Become command points of world economy
Become socially polarised
Become spatially polarised
London and similar cities
Sassen, 1991
Migrants produce urban spaces (e.g Korea town, LA)
LA not just shoeshine economy
Cities are crossroads/meeting grounds for multiple networks
Transnational Urbanism
Smith, 2001
On world cities and global cities:
Beaverstock 2002
British expatriates in Singapore.
Immigrants important in accumulation and transfer of financial knowledge.
Invisibility of the local population in their interactions.
Hamnett C (1994)
Sassen claims polarisation growth at both the top and bottom ends of the distribution and a decline in the middle of the distribution.
It is argued that while these claims may hold true for New York and Los Angeles, possibly because of their very high levels of immigration and the creation of large numbers of low skilled and low paid jobs, her attempt to extend the thesis to all global cities is problematic.
In other cities professionalisaton appears to be dominant.
British expatriates in Singapore.
Immigrants important in accumulation and transfer of financial knowledge.
Invisibility of the local population in their interactions.
On world cities and global cities:
Beaverstock 2002
Sassen claims polarisation growth at both the top and bottom ends of the distribution and a decline in the middle of the distribution.
It is argued that while these claims may hold true for New York and Los Angeles, possibly because of their very high levels of immigration and the creation of large numbers of low skilled and low paid jobs, her attempt to extend the thesis to all global cities is problematic.
In other cities professionalisaton appears to be dominant.
Hamnett C (1994)
References to use…
Sassen, 1991 Massey, 1995 Massey, 1994 Smith, 2001 Beaverstock, 2002 Hamnett C, 1994
